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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 28 Aug 2003 to 29 Aug 2003 (#2003-31)
There are 18 messages totalling 427 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Waverly pen, Russell and Allen, little dynamite machines (3)
2. "like the Waverly pen ..."
3. Juries at Assizes/Commissioning Paintings
4. concerning the readership of Victorian novels
5. married women's freedom of movement
6. Criticism on Great Expectations (2)
7. Married women's freedom of movement
8. illness and slavery (2)
9. John Henry Anderson
10. Little dynamite machines
11. Jane Austen and Richardson's Clarissa
12. widows' property rights
13. currency conversion
14. "Little dynamite machines"
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:08:10 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Waverly pen, Russell and Allen, little dynamite machines
Hi!
I think the Gaiety Theatre was on the Aldwych, where Citibank's offices now
are. The theatre was the origin of the term "Gaiety Girls".
All the best
Chris
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:33:25 +0100
From: Keith Ramsey <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Waverly pen, Russell and Allen, little dynamite machines
The Waverley pen (and the Pickwick, Owl and Hindoo pens) was made by
Macniven and Cameron in Birmingham. The label on the box bears a picture of
Scott and the slogan
They come as a boon and a blessing to men,
The Pickwick, the Owl and the Waverley pen
They also claimed to be "Pen Makers to Her Majesty's Government Offices"
The poet who sold wallpaper was, presuambly, William Morris.
Keith Ramsey
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:09:02 -0500
From: Ellen Moody <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "like the Waverly pen ..."
In respose to Susan D. Bernstein's query,
"like the Waverly pen"
"To Constance, indeed, the change in her friends'
affairs may be said to have come, like the Waverly
pen, as a boon and a blessing."
This would be a reference to Walter Scott's prolific
output which was and is still seen as both "a boon
and a blessing."
Ellen
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:55:26 EDT
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Subject: Re: Waverly pen, Russell and Allen, little dynamite machines
In a message dated 08/29/2003 6:34:09 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> The poet who sold wallpaper was, presumably, William Morris.
>
For whom the morris chair (adjustable back and removable cushions) was
named, I presume.
Richard Mintz
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:49:15 +0100
From: Peter Reed <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Juries at Assizes/Commissioning Paintings
I have recently joined the List and have found many of the threads =
interesting and relevant to my research of a Irish family of =
industrialists who came to north-west England in the 1820s and who =
through three generations of the family played a prominent part in =
science, education, the arts, and local and national politics. I would =
welcome the assistance of the List with two questions.
1). The family was involved in several major court cases for causing a =
"nuisance". One was at the Liverpool Spring Assizes of 1838 and was held =
before a "special jury". How were these juries selected? It appears =
that some members of the jury in Liverpool had appeared in a similar =
case a few weeks before.
2). Members of the family made extensive tours through Europe and the =
Middle East in the 1840s and 50s. When they returned they commissioned a =
number of paintings of particular views and scenes. In one case, the =
painting was not accepted by the family because apparently it did not =
depict the particular view or feature discussed during the original =
commissioning. I am interested to know more about the commissioning of =
paintings in this period (in the context of the Grand Tour) and other =
examples where the commission went wrong.
With many thanks.
Peter Reed
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:16:15 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: concerning the readership of Victorian novels
Hi!
Kate Flint's book *The Woman Reader* and Ann Heilmann's article "Emma
Bovary's Sisters: Infectious Desire and Female Reading Appetites in Mary
Braddon and George Moore" (*Victorian Review* 29:1, 2003, pp 31-48) are very
interesting on this topic.
I missed the start of this thread, so apologies if anyone's mentioned these
already.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:19:29 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: married women's freedom of movement
Hi!
I don't know if anyone has mentioned them already but Judith Walkowitz's
*City of Dreadful Delight* and Deborah Parsons' *Streetwalking the
Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity* (Oxford University Press, 2000),
are useful sources on this topic.
All the best
Chris
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of literature we have," (Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison)
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:13:04 -0600
From: "Franklin, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Criticism on Great Expectations
Dear Rohan, et al,
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The best I've read on <Great Expectations> and Dickens in general is the
chapter "Paranomasia, Culture, and the Power of Meaning" in Daniel
Cottom's <Text and Culture>.
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Best,
Jeff
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Jeffrey Franklin
808 S. Vine Street
Denver CO 80209
720-570-2923
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Dr. J. Jeffrey Franklin, Graduate Director
Department of English
University of Colorado at Denver
Campus Box 175, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:30:17 -0400
From: Herself <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Married women's freedom of movement
Thanks all for the answers re: married women's freedom of movement.
Of course I realized that most women were quite free to move about in
London or in their home towns--and even within England. My
particular question had to do with expatriates living in the Italian
countryside, where I thought the mores might've been different.
I was also remembering how in Ayala's Angel by Trollope, the sisters
are unable to visit each other because their guardians won't permit
them to walk between their houses, and there's no available
transportation for them.
Someone asked my name. I'm used to using my pseud on the internet
and prefer to do so. I'm not an academic--just a reader and writer.
Herself_nyc
New York, NY
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:36:09 -0400
From: audrey fisch <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: illness and slavery
Hi everyone,
I have a student working on Austen and empire and she is looking for
(secondary) discussions of illness and slavery - especially psychosomatic
illnesses and psychological illnesses in slaveholders and white women
associated with colonial slavery.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks and happy beginning of the semester to all.
Best,
Audrey Fisch
New Jersey City University
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:34:27 +0200
From: simonetta berbeglia <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: John Henry Anderson
Does anybody know whether John Henry Anderson, the Wizard of the North, was
in Florence at the end of 1846?
Simonetta Berbeglia
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:58:29 +0100
From: Alan Mountford <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Little dynamite machines
Surely this was just a jocular way of saying she would like to blow up =
the paintings, in other words much the same way as many feel about =
modern art at any period. Dynamite had been invented by Nobel some 22 =
years previously but may have still been a bit of a mystery to the =
unfamiliar, hence the rather quaint phrase.
Alan Mountford
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:42:41 +0100
From: Emma Mason <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: illness and slavery
Alan Bewell's *Romanticism and Colonial Disease* (1999) and Charlotte
Sussman's *Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender and British Slavery
1713-1833* (2000), are both excellent on this.
best,
Emma
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:13:11 EDT
From: Jane Koven <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Jane Austen and Richardson's Clarissa
Jane Austen's biographers confirm that one of her favorite books was
Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison. However, I have been unable to find any
evidence that she read Clarissa, and if so, what she thought of it.
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:06:37 -0500
From: Alisa Hartz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: widows' property rights
In _The Spoils of Poynton_ by Henry James (1897), Mrs. Gereth is the victim
of an inheritance law according to which her dead husband's house and
property go directly to her son, even while she herself is still alive.
James describes this as the "cruel English custom of the expropriation of
the lonely mother," and "the effacement to which English usage reduced the
widowed mother."
If anyone can tell me what law this is, when it was in effect, or any other
information about it, I'd be very interested and appreciative.
Thank you,
Alisa Hartz
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:34:34 -0500
From: Michael Shirley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: currency conversion
> Here's the URL for currency valuation since 1600:
> http://eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/poundq.php
Dr. Michael H. Shirley
Assistant Professor of History
Undergraduate Advisor
Department of History
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, Illinois 61920
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:59:23 -0700
From: "Peter H. Wood" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "Little dynamite machines"
The term "dynamite machines" was used in relation to a device alleged to
have been used by Fenian terrorists and anarchists in the 1880-1890 decades.
See R.L. Stevenson's "The Dynamiter" and (later) Josef Conrad's "The Secret
Agent" for more information on this topic.
Dynamite machines (aka "coal torpedoes") were supposed to be explosive
devices which, disguised as large lumps of coal, were concealed in steamship
bunkers in harbour. They would then be loaded into the furnaces when the
ship was out at sea, and blow it apart. Apart from its being a useful
explanation for vessels lost at sea from unknown causes, I do not know of an
authenticated instance of this particular atrocity.
Modern-day parallels will no doubt occur to the reader for both
perpetrators and devices.
Peter Wood
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:05:58 -0500
From: John Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Criticism on Great Expectations
Among the best things ever written on Great Expectations are Julian
Moynahan's "The Hero's Guilt: The Case of Great Expectations" Essays in
Criticism X (1960) and variously reprinted;and Robin Gilmour's chapter
("Dickens and Great Expectations" in his The Idea of the Gentleman in the
Victorian Novel
Jack Farrell,
University of Texas
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